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Career Highlights

2003 - 2022

Animal Keeper: Enrichment

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For almost two decades, Lead Fabricator at the Los Angeles Zoo, creating habitats and devices for a wide variety of animal species big and small. Examples include:

  • Renovated the Blue-Eyed Lemur Exhibit

  • Renovated the Colobus Exhibit

  • Designed & Built Elephant “Blind” Foraging Boxes

2000 - 2003

Museum Tech & Museum Docent

At the acclaimed Los Angeles Natural History Museum, assisted a multitude of departments including Sculpture, AV, Carpentry, Machine Shop, and Taxidermy. Also worked as a museum docent, leading education tours for school groups.

2000 - 2023

Additional Experience

Currently an artist who also teaches medieval combat and works as a freelance instructor, substitute, and handyman for the Rumriver Art Center in Anoka, a non-profit providing arts education and resources for the north metro area and beyond. 

 

Previously:

  • Assisted prop departments and residential/commercial contractors as handyman on various film, television, and residential projects.

  • Worked as a SAG puppeteer for Nickelodeon’s Spongebob Squarepants.​ 

  • Used construction knowledge and expertise to assist customers at True Value Hardware in Pasadena, California.

Contact
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JonBoy Silsby 

Anoka, MN

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